This question was asked previously but I would like to open it up again. I was looking into some of the controversy regarding the field of evolutionary psychology. I thought that, at the very least, there would be agreement that we evolved to speak languages. I was surprised that most articles said no. Just do a Google search on “language instinct”

It seems to me that the evidence in favor of an instinct for developing language is pretty strong:

There is no place in the world that does not have a spoken language. They all have extensive vocabularies and grammars and people who we might deem primitive can have highly sophisticated languages.

Children acquire a knowledge of language grammar as well as a vocabulary of several thousand words by an early age. By contrast, young children take much longer to learn how to count and to understand addition and subtraction. There are still hunter-gatherer tribes that do not have words for numbers greater than 3. We are definitely not wired to work with numbers.

There are areas of the brain devoted to speech and our larynx allows us to make a large assortment of sounds that others are easily able to distinguish.

I would not argue in favor of Chomsky’s universal grammar, but I do think that there is a link between language and thought. Some might argue that we do not have a language instinct per se, but language arises naturally out of our thought and communication processes. I don’t think the point is worth arguing. In either case, language arises in a natural way whenever groups of people live together.